المسيح و الرموز المسيحيه في شعر يوسف الخال

Jesus character and christianity symbols in the poem of Yusof al-Khal

The Arabic contemporary poem has faced a period in which, the poets tended to employ the prophetsʹ characters to utter poetic experiences, and social, cultural, and political conditions of their own era. The character of Jesus Christ (peace be upon him), is one of the most prominent characters used among the contemporary pioneering poets who found it the most appropriate character to express pain, grief, loneliness, and the stagnation of their own society. Little by little, Jesusʹs character got its right place among Muslim and Christian poets in comparison with other prophets. Yusof Alkhal is the most prominent Christian poet who commenced using Christian point of view in Arabic literature, and his poems have the color of Christianity. This paper aims to study Jesus Christʹs character and Christian symbols in this Lebanese poet by using descriptive-analytical method. The results show that, because of the excessive use of such symbols in his poems, understanding them is impossible without being aware of such symbols. He has used such symbols to express the duality of the death and the resurrection Day. He has opened the window of hope and freedom through killing death, devotion and sacrificing. His long poems seem to be optimistic in contrary to its pessimistic commence.